<p>Pacheight has discussed his views about this before and while it can be rehashed and rehashed, people may wish to read the previous discussions first, so as to not start over. :D</p>
<p>First, pacheight shared this viewpoint on a Theater/Drama Majors thread where a student was asking for guidance:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/theater-drama-majors/1074612-do-i-stand-chance-please-help.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/theater-drama-majors/1074612-do-i-stand-chance-please-help.html</a></p>
<p>I chose not to get involved in that discussion. </p>
<p>In the past few days on the Parent Forum on CC, on a thread topic UNRELATED to colleges/theater, pacheight brought this all up there. Most of you who read the Theater Majors Forum tend not to participate on the Parent Forum and likely did not see this long discussion (though I wish more theater students and parents had chimed in!). I did participate a great deal as I was already involved in the thread (which had to do with prep schools originally) but then pacheight addressed me and in my view, put down my advising students with regard to colleges for theater. It may help to read the background there so as to not have to start fresh HERE again. 
I believe pacheight has brought that discussion over to here (in fact, the part about Tommy Lee Jones was all discussed a great deal over there). If you wish to read that discussion for background, go to the following thread and the topic first appears in pacheight’s post 502 and then other topics are mixed in but then starting on post 526, the theater/colleges topic gets going for a long while (with other topics mixed in that you’d have to wade through on this thread):</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/1075415-sad-see-dd-prep-high-school-didnt-make-forbes-top-20-prep-school-13.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/1075415-sad-see-dd-prep-high-school-didnt-make-forbes-top-20-prep-school-13.html</a></p>
<p>That should bring y’all up to date! :D</p>
<p>pacheight, you have advised on these various threads that those wishing to pursue acting either skip college all together and go straight to LA or NYC and learn acting “on the job,” or go to college for anything BUT theater since you don’t feel college is the place to train as an actor, OR if the student goes to college for theater, that it only be located in LA or NYC. I have to agree with NotMamaRose above and some others, that CC is a forum about college selection and admissions. Those who participate are interested in pursuing, well, college! There are many paths to becoming a successful actor and a BFA or a BA in acting or musical theater are one way but not the only way. But it is one effective way that can lead to success for some. I won’t go over all I posted a great deal on the prep school thread when you turned the discussion to this topic and addressed me, which is why I participated THAT time, but had refrained in your earlier discussion on the Theater/Drama Majors forum.</p>